I did - I'm still full. Now to take the dog out.

Which of you will stagger most, the dog from old age, or Megham from a huge lunch?

Edited September 29, 200816 yr by Bramley

Definately me. So much for trying to lose the half stone I gained in the last month of Dad's life.

Ah, but there is far more fun in not slimming.

I've just had a wonderful day in York.....bought some books....looked round some shops

went to the castle museum......and saw my grannys kitchen and my kitchen...and my parents front room....scary....I'm part of history :o

had a walk by the river, read my book in Starbucks and a pub/church....

went to the railway museum and went on the big wheel

then met my husband and had a great chinese meal and had a few drinks with his work mates in our hotel bar

very nice.....

Sounds like a wonderful day Pam. I've never been to York. How come you saw your Granny's kitchen and your parents front room in the museum?

At the castle museum it's a walk back in time, they have rooms done in different eras.

There is also a cobbled street of shops, schoolroom, police station, blacksmiths etc.

I remember going as a child.

It's worth a visit.

They have a sixties area as well....spotted a lot of my or my brothers toys.

Then there is a civil war area....but I whizzed through that....

Sounds great. Maybe one day I'll visit there.

The Castle Museum is so nostalgic. It's a bit weird seeing everyday items you recognise in a museum though. I much prefer museums which chronicle the lives of everyday people. I had that deja-vu feeling when I saw some of those rooms too.

 

I was quite young when my paternal grandmother died but I can still see her in her house because it appeared to me to be almost fairylike, nothing like ours at all. She had a great cast iron range, huge pieces of furniture, a stuffed canary in a glass case which terrified me, and the things which intrigued me the most - gas lights, which I think she lowered on some kind of a chain to light. She used to carry burning coals through the house from the range to light the other fires. She was tiny but strong with a great big heart. I loved her deeply.

 

Places like the Castle Museum bring that all back.

 

I loved York and I'd definitely go back there for a longer spell. I've still to 'do' the Norvik/ Jorvik (?) centre. It was mobbed all the times we tried.

Edited September 30, 200816 yr by Baytree

It has the railway museum so it's a place I'm likely to be visiting many times again. I coluldn't believe the mini York Eye. It's rained nearly everytime I;ve been there.

 

I'm out to lunch - again!!!!

It has a "Thomas The Tank" Engine which takes kids and adults out for a little trip. I loved seeing all the kids faces when they saw 'him'.

Maybe I should keep Dave well away then. Engines tarted up as Thomas make steam come out of HIS ears.

There's a Harley bike run to York on 19th October to visit the Jorvik viking centre, I was tempted to go yesterday but decided to wait.

 

It's a lovely city with wonderful old buildings.

I'll certainly return.

 

 

It's great walking the wall in the rain. Not many people do. Last time we had to empty our boots out before we went into anywhere.

I hate walking in the rain - it wrecks my hair and is cold.

Cole, Nina. Not you, you're never cold. (just freezing)

We've often been to York. Our most disappointing trip was just before Christmas one year. We went into the cathedral

expecting to see a crib and the usual greenery, but no. Just a vast expanse of space and a cold uninviting

feeling. Outside the building is very imposing, but I was disappointed with the interior. Although at the time

they were excavating the foundations to strengthen them so there was a lot of work activity.

I love Bath cathedral with the angels on the ladders to Heaven. I always wonder whether they are climbing

back, or if they are scrambling down to view the earthlings.

and falling of the ladder laughing at us.

 

It's lovely and sunny here. We did have a short shower earlier though.

I hate walking in the rain - it wrecks my hair and is cold.

 

Never move to Scotland, Nina. You'd hardly ever get out then.

 

Sometimes I really enjoy walking in the soft rain. The horizontal gale force stuff driven directly into the face and from which there is no shelter, is a very different case.

 

Maybe Darius could schedule a gig in York. I'd make a short City Break of that one.

 

I personally can't recall him ever playing York, which seems very strange because it's a fairly large city isn't it?

The most fascinating 'crib' I ever saw was in the Church of St Suulpice in paris, the Church with the gnomen mentioned in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.

 

Their nativity scene was just a tiny section at the front of a huge model of the whole town of Bethlehem at the time. It was absolutely fascinating. If I make it back to Paris this December, I'm going to see if it's there again.

 

Notre Dame had life size figures, even the camels, what a contrast.